Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 16

He felt this life in him, and it was as if he heard the sound of dear, well-known melodies, as if the breezes of summer floated around him; and over his couch shone a ray of brightness, as if it were shining through the covering of his snow-roof.

Who acts: soul, life, breezes, summer · What happens: feel, be, know, float, shine, breeze · To what, where: life, ray, couch, covering, brightness

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, life, breezes, summer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 life	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	cop
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 heard	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 heard	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sound	det
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	23 melodies	case
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 melodies	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 melodies	punct
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 known	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 well	punct
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 melodies	amod
23	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sound	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 floated	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 floated	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 floated	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 breezes	det
28	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 floated	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 summer	case
30	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breezes	nmod
31	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 heard	conj
32	around	around	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 floated	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 shone	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 shone	cc
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 couch	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 couch	nmod:poss
38	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shone	obl
39	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 ray	det
41	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shone	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 brightness	case
43	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ray	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 shining	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 shining	mark
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 shining	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 shining	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 shining	aux
49	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 shone	advcl
50	through	through	ADP	_	52 covering	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 covering	det
52	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 shining	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	57 roof	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 roof	nmod:poss
55	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 roof	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 snow	punct
57	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 covering	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	soul	this life		in eye	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent life=Theme in he=Location
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	life			hear property	tree rules
3	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	float a condition, not said to happen	participle	the breezes of summer			around soul	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Trajectory
5	shine	past	life not said here	a ray of brightness	soul's couch		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ray=Theme
6	shine	past · progressive	life		the covering of soul's snow roof		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through covering=Location
7	breeze		summer				nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
8	ray			brightness			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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